Links to the Lucky Patial gang have emerged in the murder of a 16-year-old boy who was shot dead outside the Sanatan Dharam Temple in Sector 22-B on Thursday night.
The video has since been deleted but the juvenile continued to hold a grudge. Following this, the gang assigned two men for the job. The duo is currently on the run. Police are investigating how they communicated and where they acquired the pistol from. The weapon is yet to be recovered.
Police said that in the latest case, the rivalry between the victim and the juvenile began when they were studying in a private school in Sector 44. Police said the victim had allegedly thrashed him in a park in Sector 34 and uploaded a video of the incident on Instagram. The shots were fired from a .32 bore pistol, police added. In wake of the gang angle, the case has been transferred from the Sector 17 police station to the operations cell.
The juvenile detained in the case had approached the gang to take down the victim with whom he had a long-standing rivalry, according to the police. they said that preliminary findings suggest that the juvenile had reached out to the gang through the brother of a friend While police are still piecing together the clues.
In this case too, the gang had been hired by a resident to settle scores with the victim. The juvenile had allegedly pointed the gang members to the target, it has emerged. In all three rounds were fired, out of which, one hit the autodriver’s shoulder. The victim tried to get out of the auto and flee towards the temple. But he was hit.
The Lucky Patial gang had earlier claimed responsibility for a property dealer’s murder in Sector 9. He was rushed to Government Multi-Specialty Hospital (GMSH), Sector 16, where doctors declared him brought dead.
The victim was sitting in an autorickshaw with his friend and the autodriver when the two gang members, along with the juvenile, arrived on a motorcycle and opened fire, according to information. The autodriver, in his 50s, is recuperating at the hospital and is said to be stable.
